The Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball team Reflects the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, as a Part of the Big Ten Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Coach Fran McCaffery has been because 2010 at Iowa, and is the head coach.
The Hawkeyes won eight Big Ten regular-season conference championships, have played 26 NCAA Tournaments, eight NIT Tournaments and won the Big Ten championship double. Iowa has played in the Final Four on three occasions, reaching the semifinals at 1955 and 1980 and playing in the championship game against the University of San Francisco in 1956.
Iowa basketball was widely successful in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s with a schedule resurgence under Lute Olson and the tenures of George Raveling and Tom Davis. Beneath Olson, the Hawkeyes won their Big Ten regular season championship and moved to the 1980 Final Four.
They currently play in Arena, along with Iowa women’s basketball, wrestling, and volleyball teams.
Before playing Carver-Hawkeye Arena, which started in 1983,[6] that the Hawkeyes played in the Iowa Armory and the Iowa Field House, which is still used today by the institution’s gymnastics teams. Before dropping to rival Northern Iowa, in 2006, the Hawkeyes accumulated a school-record 21 wins at home.
Four Iowa coaches have been inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame: Sam Barry, Ralph Miller, Lute Olson and George Raveling.
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